After the inertia of the lockdown, the adrenaline circulation of journey sports activities. Cyrus Sahukar packed off for the snowy terrains of Manali with co-host Amol Parashar to shoot Season 2 of the short-format journey actuality collection Feelin Alive.  The four-part collection, at the moment on air each Monday on Discovery Channel, Discovery HD, TLC and TLC HD, will see the hosts going round Manali discovering the unknown and overcoming their fears. Coaching below specialists, the duo will got down to carry out excessive sports activities like slacklining at Jagat Sukh, canyoning at Jogini Falls, snowboarding at Solang Valley and ATV off-roading alongside mountain roads.

When stepping out of the home is an journey for a lot of the world, it seems to be such as you did rather more!

Yeah. The shoot occurred in November. We had a Covid check earlier than leaving. It’s a tiring course of. However it’s important to begin work sooner or later. So long as the protocol is adopted, I’m fantastic.

It should have been chilly sufficient by then?

It was bone-chilling chilly. It had not snowed in Manali within the final 17 years until this month. Even we had been fairly shocked. However what a welcome break for all of us after being locked down in Bombay to seek out powdery snow in all places. It was a surreal and delightful expertise. I didn’t need to come again. We spent simply 4 days there.

So that you needed to pack in quite a bit in these 4 days!

Sure, it saved the adrenaline pumping. Each Amol (Parashar) and I had been bouncing from one place to a different and each of us had been pleased to be taken anyplace outdoors the room.  The expertise of creating the present was as adventurous because the present itself. Every single day, we had been doing a unique journey sport. Amol was giving me a problem or I used to be giving him one. And a few we did collectively.

Which exercise did you do collectively?

Driving ATV. These all-terrain automobiles are massive motor cycles that may journey anyplace — on river banks, rocks, mud tracks or right into a jungle. Some other car would most likely get caught. I received a correct tutorial after which travelled fairly a number of kilometres. Amol had deliberate a route for me.

Was there a aggressive factor?

Greater than competitors, it was about getting one another to do new issues.

What exercise did you select for Amol?

Slacklining. The road was set throughout a river although not at a fantastic top. There was no internet beneath however full security procedures had been taken. He was rigged in order that in case he slipped and fell, he might be yanked up. These sports activities want a variety of apply and we had been doing introductory degree stuff below the supervision of specialists. They took the choice as to at what top the road could be positioned and the place. It was very chilly that day. Amol was very courageous about it.

What did he select for you?

Canyoning down a waterfall. You tie a rope to the highest of the cliff and also you slowly slide down proper subsequent to the waterfall. You might be virtually parallel to the wall, like Spider-Man. The rock you’re canyoning on is tremendous slippery due to the water. It’s scary as you’re looking straight up on the sky whereas releasing the rope and sliding down the waterfall. Your toes are on the floor of the cliff and your knees are bent.

I needed to maintain releasing the rope tied to my waist as I lowered my physique down the floor of the cliff. I needed to lean backwards, going through the sky, in any other case the stress on the rope would have been an excessive amount of.

Was this the hardest job?

I discovered even snowboarding tough to be taught. Each of us did it. You have got a board and also you slide off it. We went to a gorgeous place in Manali. We spent half a day studying. Balancing in snow is supremely tough. I used to be falling or slipping 90 per cent of the time. However the feeling of falling in snow can be magical. You slide down the sting of a cliff lined in snow.  Even in case you are not good at it, it’s an expertise one should have.

You have got simply hit the 40s. Did you’ve any doubts going for an journey sports activities journey?

I used to be assured and was wanting ahead to it. I’ve spent a big a part of my life trekking and tenting out.

Are Indians changing into extra keen on journey sports activities?

Now we have a variety of Indians tenting , snowboarding… in case you go to Gulmarg or Manali, these locations are filled with journey lovers. We  even have a few of the finest mountains on this planet.

Maska launched in March. How did you spend lockdown and the intervening months?

Kadakh launched in June. It had me, Ranvir Shorey and Kalki Koechlin.  I co-wrote it and Rajat Kapoor directed it. It’s on Sony Liv. I do a weekly present for Zee5 the place we do enjoyable chats on each upcoming movie or TV present with the solid and crew. I did The Lacking Apron for TLC. I’ve been doing numerous occasions from dwelling. I additionally did an internet collection produced by Nikhil Advani, referred to as Kaun Banega Shekhawati. The shoot is just not totally over. It’s a unusual comedy, set in Rajasthan.

You used to do a variety of occasions. How are you discovering issues within the new regular?

It’s very bizarre not being in entrance of the viewers and be behind the display on a regular basis. Folks have began to work, so long as they will keep tremendous match and tremendous good. In some ways, the world has modified for ever. You might be further cautious. The occasions trade has been badly hit. In any other case, via December-January, all I do